Final Exam Topics

Women's Soccer

In tribute to our recent championship, we'll look at women's soccer. Topics: championship or regular season, multi-year or single-year, team or individual statistics, world cups The least intersting chart that you could put up is the number of chanpionships by school. There is some on professionsl team material, but World Cup and college are going to be more interesting. These are a few references; there are lots more. Unfortunately, the UNC sites are not always the easiest to extract information from.

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Endangered Species

Topic: endangered species by classification or country. There's lots of information here and lots of options. Choose a type of species or a country to look at. Additional information can be about the country or specific species chosen.

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Languages

Topic: diversity of languages around the world. There are many ways to look at languages around the world: who speaks them, how widely they are spoken. Related topics can include the history of human language or of English specifically. Or you could connect it to animal communication.

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US Presidential Elections

Another timely topic or is it hackneyed at this point? Topic: Can look at results, voter turnouts, a single election, a single state, or mored general trends. Some of the general pieces cover 2012, some don't.

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US Economy

Topic: US economic indicators. There is a plethora of economic data available. These websites are a bit more summary-like than others. Discusssion can discuss what the indicators mean or talk about economics in general.

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European Union

Topic: Broad opportunities of the EU. Since the EU is basically an economic union, most of the information will be economic. You can choose to look at some of the statistics, some of the problems facing the EU, or look at one country compared to the union as a whole.

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